It rained most of Thursday night but we stayed high and dry in the new Tent. I am having one issue with large volumes of rain gathering in the covered area outside the door of the tent, still looking for a good solution.
We made some scrambled eggs and bacon in the cast iron skillet and packed up camp to head for the Linville Gorge area. On the way we hit fog, rain, and some sun. The dirt roads were nasty but thanks to the new flares the jeep, trailer, and occupants stayed relatively clean.
We stopped in little switzerland at the Little Switzerland Cafe and General store for some lunch. I had a smoked trout BLT and Weston and Andrea had the BBQ sandwitch which was all very tasty. We arrived at Old NC 105 later in the afternoon and the sun had began to sneak out.
We unhooked the trailer and setup the ezup tent and then headed for Old Fort for the Mountain Music Festival. This would be the beginning of few things that belonged in the FAIL thread haha. First thing we learned was that Old Fort is a one horse town with nowhere to eat as everything is closed. The railroad museum closes at 5 and the mountain music doesnt start till 7...so you have nothing to look at or eat while in the down town area. We decided to head back into Marion to find some food. We stopped at an awesome bbq restaurant but decided to find something else as they had bbQ for lunch... We ended up at "The Steak House" ...word of warning, its a hacked together western sizzling, overpriced and microwave dinner style food. We eneded up heading to a drive in nearby for some icecream afterwords to try to save the evening.
Then the rain came down...and came down and came down. We decided to head back to camp and hang out hoping to wait out the rain. Well as soon as we got out of town the rain stopped and the sun began to shine. We made it back to camp in time to hike to a few trails. Andrea was tired and had been eaten by some sort of misquitos while weston and I had yet to get bitten so she hit the sack early while weston and I enjoyed some micro brews we found in little switzerland.